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JAMES BEVIS Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Waco, Texas...
Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf, tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16 consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado...
Ever since he became a civilian, Eatherly has been in and out of hospitals and in and out of trouble. Back home in Texas, he was picked up a couple of times for forgery. Then he was arrested for theft and sent to a VA hospital in Waco for treatment. When he got out, he tried robbing post offices and breaking into a drive-in grocery. Always, his war record got him off and he was sent back to the hospital for further treatment. But this fall the ex-pilot walked out of the Waco hospital once more...
Truman's intemperate words touched off a salvo of indignation. In Waco, Texas, a group of 72 Baptist ministers passed a resolution rebuking Truman "as a Christian, a Baptist, and a guest in our midst." In Washington, G.O.P. Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people...
...first astronautrix (measurements: 36-27-34) eats hamburgers for breakfast, is an old hand at airplanes, with more air time-over 7,500 hrs.-than any of the male astronauts. The daughter of a then Air Corps captain, Jerrie learned to fly her father's Waco biplane when she was just twelve years old. "Dad fastened 12 in. planks on the pedals so I could reach," she explains...